Wonderful Boone Memories

Posted in Uncategorized by Flavor on December 2, 2017

Really interested to see how Aaron Boone ends up doing in his Yankee managerial career. I can’t remember a baseball team that was good that hired someone as manager who had absolutely no experience. It should tell us a lot about how difficult the job is (something I’ve wondered about after watching Bochy look like a genius with good players and an idiot with bad ones).

The Warriors did nearly the same thing with Steve Kerr and look how that turned out.

My Aaron Boone story is actually a Bob Boone story. When I was 8 my tee ball manager took us to a Giants game at Candlestick and he knew Bob Boone and arranged a meet and greet in the parking lot after the game. I don’t remember a single thing about that meeting except Boone’s lady was standing next to him. She was tiny and I was able to look down her blouse. She wasn’t wearing a bra and i was getting two eye fulls of nipple. First titties I ever saw live.

I remember being so happy.

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weren’t most of the guys they interviewed without managing experience?
Curious move to fire Girardi in first place, this one a gamble too by Cashman.
Boone seems laid back guy, see how that plays out in NYC and with players and staff.

supposedly G was gone regardless of how postseason turned out, but he almost had the Stros and took down favored Tribe so it wasn’t just reg season.
Nobody has to like a guy for the team to be successful…Baker is loved by players, but we know how things turn out with his teams in playoffs.

I’m sure the success of Dave Roberts played into this decision a little. He came in the same way. Laid back guy with a good amount of cred as a player. Boone’s family is immersed in the game so there’s that as well.

From what I can tell, there are two recent examples of an ex-player without any coaching or managerial experience taking over as manager for very good teams: Brad Ausmus for the Tigers, who had been to the ALCS three straight years, and Mike Matheny for the Cards, who had just won the World Series in 2011,

buddy of mine since high school just texted me this: “saw you mocking the beatles on the blog. That’s some of the most ignorant shit I’ve ever heard out of you.”
Needless to say, a text war has ensued…..

I told him point blank to admit he doesn’t listen to the beatles anymore and this was the response:
We just went to a Beatles tribute band last night. They played the whole White album,”
I have no idea what the White album is but I’ll just chalk last night’s activity up to my friends in Portland being kinda kooky…

the cultural divide between early and late boomers is astounding. I could not tell you if I’ve every heard a GnR song (of course I’ve heard dozens thousands of times, but I’d never notice). On the other hand, even for a kid who preferred Dylan-Stones-Hendrix to the Beatles, the White Album is landmark. For example, every new year’s eve party I went to my senior year in high school had the thing playing in the background. Later, Joan Didion . . . but I digress.

Another reason why I’m all for college athletes rights and getting paid.
Jimbo Fisher, coach at Florida State just left the program in mid-contract to go to Texas A&M.
FSU is now 5-6, and has one game left to play this season.
Abandoning your kids before a lost season is even done for more cash — that’s a great character example.
Will players he just recruited now on the team for the first season be allowed to jump ship to another school? Nah. Not unless they sit out a year first…

Cracks me up all these college coaches get like 12 mil are more buyouts just to not be wanted by their former teams..
Fuck why coach again anymore?
Then you get an “Old Geezer” like Herm Edwards getting back in who hasn’t been on the sidelines for what 8 years? getting a gig when the game has changed so much, gonna be a huge mistake hiring him..

Thanks Loo. We had some bad news regarding her 2nd attempt at a Visa and consequently, my Mom won’t be able to see her grandchild during the Christmas holidays. However, I sort of anticipated this possibly happening and gave her $10k to either visit us or meet us in a country which only requires a passport. There’s only 3 in the Western Hemisphere – Haiti, Dominican Republic and Panama (which both my parents and I have been too – so that will win out, if that’s their choice). Tentatively, we’re shooting for February to meet.